Friday, January 08, 2016

"Immigration has not been without its challenges. Yet it has been, overwhelmingly, a story of success. Britain today is
more at ease with the multi-ethnic society that we have become than once
seemed imaginable – and not just to Enoch Powell. Like many before and
since, Powell underestimated the ability of a free society to adapt. Powell talked of Britain ‘heaping up its own funeral pyre’.
Yet our country has more than survived. We have, in all kinds of ways,
thrived."